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I’m a linear thinker as well and I don’t find much joy in the nuance and philosophy of religion like many posters. I just have empathy for you. Twisting and turning things to look at them from all angles? I want to find answers or accomplish something, or else move on. How many years could you study Greek mythology before you are just completely bored and unfulfilled? I’ve been studying the church pretty much every day for 40 years now. I’m honest with myself in admitting that I am going to church for my kids and for the social interaction. That is what I accomplish by going. I was even before my faith crisis. If I didn’t have kids, and felt out of place at church I’m sure I would just stay home. Doesn’t even Spock get all horny and illogical once a year during mating season? I’ve always been convinced he’s an undercover Romulan… half-human? Yuh… as if! I’m a yeti myself. Not mythological, just not scientifically recognized. Or I just might be a man in an apesuit.
Tim wrote:I’m a linear thinker as well and I don’t find much joy in the nuance and philosophy of religion like many posters. I just have empathy for you. Twisting and turning things to look at them from all angles? I want to find answers or accomplish something, or else move on. How many years could you study Greek mythology before you are just completely bored and unfulfilled? I’ve been studying the church pretty much every day for 40 years now. I’m honest with myself in admitting that I am going to church for my kids and for the social interaction. That is what I accomplish by going. I was even before my faith crisis. If I didn’t have kids, and felt out of place at church I’m sure I would just stay home.
So true. People have been studying mythology for a very long time and although it has produced some grand thinkers it has produced little in the way of progress. Mythology and Mormonism is still producing the same questions it did 2000 years ago. Mainly who am I. Then mythology produces an answer that hardly anyone can agree on and so we keep asking asking and asking. Twisting and turning what little we have to work with to fit our world view. In the mean time science can tell you very much about yourself with all sorts of evidence to back it up. Yet people still turn to mystics and soothsayers for answers.
I am not against mythology at all. I think it important to ask the grand questions, but limit our answers to the realm of the verifiable.
Quote:Mythology and Mormonism is still producing
the same questions it did 2000 years ago.
Because as a species with a finite lifespan and memory, individuals have to rediscover these questions.
Science still hasn’t answered some of the most basic questions. How can we address existence, morality and God properly when we still don’t understand gravity, time, let alone dreams and humor yet?
I’m probably am not the best person to reply to this trend because I’m in a faith crisis myself but maybe my insight will help somewhat. Note… This is not doctrine of the church, but my own logical guess.
my professor in scared txt and mythology class quoted ” mythology is eternal truth”
😯 At first, it took me off guard because everyone knows that mythology is.. Myth. His defense was that these stories survived the hard knocks of time, legends gets passed on through the generations. Many ” truths” doesn’t survive the brutality of time. Myth or not, there is a lot we can learn from our history and avoid the same mistakes and myths has a ” moral story” to every story. I’ll leave it at that because I’m still all mind boggled with this quote.As for me, I’m a scientist and logical. When I first investigated the church, I didn’t believe much of the bible or anything because it was too um not real. I came to conclusions that ” magic are actually technologies that are not yet understood.”. For instance if we were able to go back in time to thousands years before Christ and lightened a lightener. What would the people’s reactions be like? It would be pure magic to them. Maybe things mentioned in the bible and BOM seems like ” magic ” to them, but it really was some kind of advanced technology that somehow got into their hands ( suppose God was more involved in their lives back then). At the same time, why did he allow polygamy if he can use ” magic” to fix the offspring issues? At the same time, by the same logic, it doesn’t explain the reason why God is not involved our live as much like he used to, if that was the case.
I also figured that the years, days mentioned in the bible that conflicts the history of science has been ” dumbed” down to simple language everyone can process the information to understand the story of creation and the infinite amount of time would’ve went over our heads if it the ” same” story we’re to be told in exact literal sense. If God is really infinite and exists, then how can infinite knowledge and understanding fit into our finite minds?
:wtf: Maybe the bible had events that occurred and the people during that era could not explain it or they are purely symbolic.
Maybe the books had the whole history timeline way off and such since they are not pure from alternations in the Catholic Church when they were in control for centuries.
Questions will never stop, even if we try to come up with a logical explanation,it will always arises different questions.
A the same time both texts empathizes faith. Why faith? Sometimes I wonder if it is something religion use to keep the people blindly loyal or is there something the guy upstairs wants us to understand and learn something….? Where is the line between faith in ” myth” and using our heads, our brains to figure out what the truth is?
:crazy: Does seem paradoxical that there is truth in myth. But I guess this is what they call (wrongly) a right hemisphere issue.
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